Become a Fan

RadioShank: Best Albums of 2015 So Far Survey

Methodology: So, for some reason I am unsure of, I spent 6 hours compiling this list of the "Best Albums of 2015 So Far."

It should be noted, this is not necessarily what we at the Mobtown Shank think are the best albums. Sure, there are a number of records on this list that would have made our list too, like Courtney Barnett, Sleater-Kinney, Father John Misty, etc. But had this been our list, you also would have seen Courtney Green, The Sonics, and Wild Honey (all of which showed up on other lists but not enough to qualify).

It should also be pointed out that most the lists we used were posted in June or July - meaning anything coming out after that wouldn't be included.

I then compiled a master list of everything included from these sources and then applied a point every time the same album got mentioned (as not every site bothered to rank their entries so much as list them.)

For the sake of length (I was trying to get the top 30-40 albums), any album getting fewer than 3 mentions were knocked off the list. The list was then ranked 1 through whatever based on this initial scoring. As this resulted in a number of ties, I then averaged the rankings from the sites that bothered to rank the albums. The better scoring records resulted in the higher ranking.

And so based on all that, we have this list. What's it mean? Who the fuck knows, but here it is. (The Spotify playlist above is in countdown form, with a song from each of the albums (with Bob Dylan and Jessica Pratt's records not being available from the service).